Warframe In The Playground - The Grustrag 03

[mangosta71]

The passive effect of the Rakta Dark Dagger could be useful as well, as it significantly reduces your detection radius when you have it out.

Oh, yeah. Slap a Covert Lethality in it and you never have to worry about an enemy waking up prematurely due to damage. If you're using a high-damage single shot weapon the only ones you really need to worry about are Noxes, and the dagger will do for them.

[Brother Oni]

I found this maintained google document for glyph codes that people may want: link.

A word of warning, inputting too many incorrect codes in a short period of time will cause your account to be soft locked, so I recommend checking in game first which ones you have.

This applies whether you're entering them via the website or ingame.


In personal news, I'm finding the Quills grind to be remarkably painless in public Eidolon hunts and barring incidents where other players assume all the others are idiots and bring multiple lures (which is reasonable in my opinion), I've been thankfully free of trolls and leechers.

[thatSeniorGuy]

Public hunts are actually quite good. I'm not sure if you've been doing Teralyst hunts or all 3, but I regularly do Terry+Garry+Harry pub hunts and I can count the number of bad ones I've had on one hand. Lately I've even had a few 3x3 ones.

[mangosta71]

Yeah, the grind really isn't bad. And as a bonus you get arcanes. I wish the arcanes worked like void relics (each person in the squad getting one and everyone picking from the available rewards), but you can't have everything.

Also, I thought the group I had that managed 2 triple hunts in a single night phase was fast. 3 is pretty incredible.

[thatSeniorGuy]

From my experience, 2x3 is about standard in a pub group. You can get three if say a couple of people have Void Strike ranked up and everyone knows what role they need to play.

[Brother Oni]

Public hunts are actually quite good. I'm not sure if you've been doing Teralyst hunts or all 3, but I regularly do Terry+Garry+Harry pub hunts and I can count the number of bad ones I've had on one hand. Lately I've even had a few 3x3 ones.

I've only been running Terry as I thought my gear was mediocre, but I should probably move on to Terry/Garry/Harry as surprisingly, unless I party up with a properly tooled up hunter (eg someone with a lanka and presumably riven) I never get less than 50% damage done for some reason.

I haven't hit the wiki or youtube in a while for this game - I'll be glad to be trying out something new.

[Deadline]

Wow, not sure how I haven't seen this thread before. I hopped into Warframe about a month ago. Been enjoying it, but haven't hit endgame stuff yet.

In case anyone is interested (and want to add it to the OP), here's my info:

GiTP User: Deadline
Warframe name: CthonicStalker
Clan: Sidereal

[mangosta71]

Wow, not sure how I haven't seen this thread before. I hopped into Warframe about a month ago. Been enjoying it, but haven't hit endgame stuff yet.

In case anyone is interested (and want to add it to the OP), here's my info:

GiTP User: Deadline
Warframe name: CthonicStalker
Clan: Sidereal

Welcome to our cult of crazy space ninjas! Are you on PC, Xbox, or PS4?

[Deadline]

Welcome to our cult of crazy space ninjas! Are you on PC, Xbox, or PS4?

Woops! I'm on PC.

[Leon]

Good choice

[Deadline]

So, just completed the Second Dream last night, and I'm wondering if now is the right time to start figuring out how best to farm focus, or if that is more of a late game activity. Any advice?

[Leon]

it takes a lot to get anywhere with it so start as soon as possible if your going to use it. Or you do what i do and just ignore it since they took a worthwhile system and made it unfun and tied to the tween

[Murmaider]

The fastest way to farm focus is Elite Sanctuary Onslaught. Pretty late game.

I'm not sure what the rate is in regular Sanctuary Onslaught, but it's probably the second best way to farm focus.

[Recaiden]

Not yet.
You at least want to complete The War Within quest to access the more useful focus powers.

Besides that, farming focus is best done with greater and Eidolon Lenses (from Plains of Eidolon bounties) and high powered weapons (rank up your mods).

The fastest way to farm focus is hunting Eidolons.
The next fastest way to farm focus is solo stealth exterminates using Equinox or Banshee's abilities.
The third fastest way is Elite Sanctuary Onslaught.

You probably want to prioritize Zenurik's Energizing Dash, and then forget about earning more focus until lategame. Vazarin's Protective Dash is another game-changing option, but more niche.

[mangosta71]

Not yet.
You at least want to complete The War Within quest to access the more useful focus powers.

Besides that, farming focus is best done with greater and Eidolon Lenses (from Plains of Eidolon bounties) and high powered weapons (rank up your mods).

The fastest way to farm focus is hunting Eidolons.
The next fastest way to farm focus is solo stealth exterminates using Equinox or Banshee's abilities.
The third fastest way is Elite Sanctuary Onslaught.

You probably want to prioritize Zenurik's Energizing Dash, and then forget about earning more focus until lategame. Vazarin's Protective Dash is another game-changing option, but more niche.

I would add Ivara to the list of frames for solo stealth exterminates. Build her for range and she can put everything to sleep and kill it just as fast as Equinox.

[NEO|Phyte]

Plague Star is making a return later today, don't recall what all could be got from it but get your warfarms ready.

[Leon]

the plague zaw parts are all i can recall for it and some set mods

[NeoVid]

The big rewards are the awesome Plague zaw parts, along with premade Forma, and now, chances at the Revenant schematics.

[Leon]

oh fun that totally makes me want to do the event again a chance the new thing dropping. the zaw bits are ok but when all is said and done i still use my other melee more often than any of the zaws i have built, my most Damaging melee is still Gal Prime

[Brother Oni]

Personally, the rare gems are what's drawing me in as I recently got into Operator/Amp arcanes. 10-15 minutes work for a guaranteed 4 nyths/sentriums? Yes please.

[Toastkart]

Now that Chroma Prime has been released, is anyone else a little disappointed that he didn't get a rework as well? What changes would you want to see?

I think the most obvious is to be able to change element in mission, most likely on his number 2, not unlike Vauban. Could we also make it an area buff rather than an aura that you can't see the radius of? That would also free up augment mod space for something else.

His number 3 is pretty good as is. Even after the recent fix, it's still a good ability.

An idea I had for his number 4 was to make it a permanent sentinel like Venari is a permanent khavat. Activating it could plant it in turret form similar to how it does now and it can keep its stun.

His number 1 is usually ridiculed for good reason. Lose the slow walking and either increase its range and arc, or increase how ability range affects its range and arc. One thing that would be cool is synergy, so that when you have 1 active, your pelt is also breathing elemental breath as it follows you around or in turret form.

Now, if the pelt becomes a sentinel, it'll probably need a sentinel weapon. I'm open to other suggestions, but there's two ways I would want it to go. Either a 'beam' shotgun like the phantasma, or a slug shotgun like the astilla. A sentinel version of the phantasma would keep it in theme, but would probably end up shorter range than sweeper.

Any thoughts on these ideas? Anyone having as much trouble getting Chroma prime as I am? I've been through at least 15 relics so far and only have the main blueprint to show for it.

[Leon]

No, vomit dragon can stay crappy as far as i care, least they made him actually look decent with the prime version

[Wraith]

A new Twitch Prime bundle has been announced.

As of October 16th, link your Warframe account and get a free Vectis Prime, Fang Prime, and Sugatra. Pretty sure I already have them mastered, but I imagine there's Tenno out there who would like a new sniper rifle.

[Chromascope3D]

So, Arbitrations are here. Once again, caster frames are effectively gated from being able to participate in high level play, and automatic/beam weapons are reinforced at the top of the tier list.

Also, leavers. Leavers as far as the eye can see.

[Brother Oni]

So, Arbitrations are here. Once again, caster frames are effectively gated from being able to participate in high level play, and automatic/beam weapons are reinforced at the top of the tier list.

Also, leavers. Leavers as far as the eye can see.

I don't seem to have any issue with caster frames (I've tried out Mag, Equinox and Nova and they work fine) and any weapon which has high burst/DPM would be required for this level of content.

I'll concede there's a preference for hitscan weapons to kill the drones asap, but a supra vandal seems to do just fine. My Vaykor Hek also does fine for one-shotting the drones.

As for leavers, since you can't be revived once you die in an arbitration and because the afk timer kicks in after about a minute, there's very little point in staying if you die (especially if you get one-shotted). I'm not sure how it's calculated, but up to the first rotation A at least, it very much seems to be a drop in/drop out style of gameplay - people who have died early are replaced by new people joining in.


I do think double rounds per rotation is a bit excessive for some of the mission types, defence especially. Even with a 10% Power Strength Speedva, a defence round takes ~1 minute, so ~30 minutes to get to rotation C is a bit too much work for the reward offered, not to mention chance of failure is significant (the enemies move around as if hit by a decent Volt buff). The Arbitration rewards will also need expanding as more and more players get the essences they need to buy the interesting stuff.
All in all, I think it's a decent game mode, just needs some tweaking and fine tuning, which is par for the course for DE.

Edit: New glyph code: SOLARISUNITED. PC only at the moment, but I'd expect consoles to get it later.
Editedit: And the latest hotfix has reduced the length of defence arbitration waves.

[Chromascope3D]

I had a round last night where one dude left early on, queued back up, got put back in our squad, left for real right before the first round of interception ended, so my other two teammates followed suit, leaving me as the only one left and unable to pick anyone else up because the first round was already over by that point. That's probably the most extreme example I can give, but boy I was really pissed.

Also, the drones are immune to exalted weapons, so, in order to play Titania (my favorite frame) I have to keep switching out of razorwing in order to deal with them. Which is nonsensical, borderline aggravating.

[Leon]

Pugs. Ive only done two so far because the stars have aligned and ive had a couple of friends around who i did them with ~ i like them but they feel so drawn out with the rewards that its not something i feel inclined to do often or at the whim of randoms and the rewards aside from increased Endo are really nothing worthwhile.

a 300% Ember backed up a 300% Octavia made things melt in the first one i did and due to the 300% Frost we took very little damage (i felt a bit superfluous with my Terminator Nyx)

[McDouggal]

Arbitrations are okay.

Having played them a bit, I really don't like the drones - it's stupidly easy to come across a large group that's invulnerable and not be able to spot the drone quickly, and for pretty much every frame that's at least a chunk of damage or death.

It's essentially like a combination of the worst parts of Scrambi before they were patched to be more readable and Nullifiers.

The explosion isn't even that satisfying.

[mangosta71]

There's a special place in hell waiting for whomever thought that big groups of enemies that include multiple drones AND multiple nullifiers should ever be a thing.

On the plus side, after a very productive day of farming fissures I managed to complete Chroma, Rubico, Pyrana, and Nami Skyla. Still one piece short for Limbo, Kronen, and Gram. Oh, and I still haven't scored Khora systems, but a lot of that is due to me getting fed up by idiots bringing rank 0 frames to SO or bailing before 8 zones so I quit trying.

[Excession]

So, Arbitrations are here. Once again, caster frames are effectively gated from being able to participate in high level play, and automatic/beam weapons are reinforced at the top of the tier list.

Also, leavers. Leavers as far as the eye can see.

Casters have ESO, and Volt and Trinity are the important part of any Tridolon group, so I think they're doing OK. I reckon it's about time some of the tank frames got dusted off. I hadn't seriously used Valkyr in ages, and she's great for arbitrations. That said, I still see Saryn, Trinity, and others reasonably often; it's not all Inaros.

There's a special place in hell waiting for whomever thought that big groups of enemies that include multiple drones AND multiple nullifiers should ever be a thing.

On the plus side, after a very productive day of farming fissures I managed to complete Chroma, Rubico, Pyrana, and Nami Skyla. Still one piece short for Limbo, Kronen, and Gram. Oh, and I still haven't scored Khora systems, but a lot of that is due to me getting fed up by idiots bringing rank 0 frames to SO or bailing before 8 zones so I quit trying.

They've changed drones to not get affected by Ancient Healer auras now, which should help.

It should be possible to solo up to wave 8 in SO, using Volt or Saryn most likely. I have done it myself with Saryn, but it does get a bit hectic toward the end. It was certainly easier when it just came out and everyone was staying to 8 though.